via http://education.zdnet.com/?p=2417 "Like Twitter, it’s a microblogging site, but it builds in significant additional functionality to support classroom interactions." "When you create an account, you designate yourself as a teacher or student. Teachers can create groups that students join when they create their accounts (students can join multiple groups and teachers can create and/or join multiple groups); when a group is created, the site generates a group code that must be entered to join. Then, messages, files, links, and assignments can be sent to whole groups."
edutagger is a social bookmarking service for K-12 learners and educators, allowing you to store your web links online and share them with others, all within an educational context.
Ideas Around Photo Sharing
1. share, comment, and add notes to photos or images to be used in the classroom
2. embed your photos into your school or class web space
3. inspire writing and creativity
4. create a storybook using shared images
5. create a presentation using the photos, annotation and slideshow in flckr (Examples: What Can We Do With Flickr?, Networked Learning and Beyond the Blog)
6. use tools in Flickr Toys to create motivational posters, magazine covers, cd covers, and more, using shared photos
7. find photos that you can use that are creative commons licensed (see http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/ and http://flickrlilli.org.uk/ )
8. use tags to find photos of areas and events around the world for use in the classroom.
9. use photos to enhance students classroom work or for media literacy projects
10. promote and document school events in order to share photos with the school community
11. combine geotagged photos with Google Earth for enhanced geography explorations.
12. create digital portfolios where students and instructors can comment on the photos that are included.
13. create a photoblog using the shared photos
Share Photos of class and school events using Flickr. This service allows you to embed photos in a blog, web site and share them via RSS. It’s a great way to give parents a peek into their children’s school day.
You can also grab feeds from interesting local photographers and bring them into the classroom for discussion, or for writing inspiration. My current favourite feed is photographer Sam Javanrouh.
Teachers and students from 10 European schools are working on tools regarding ELECTRONIC LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS like ejournals, webquests, weblogs, websites, video conferences, voip, photo imaging et cetera. It turns out that platforms like Dokeos, Lo-net,
tteach is a soon to launch, free interactive knowledge sharing website. Here anyone can teach, learn & share their knowledge, educational resources & original classes worldwide through a unique, well designed, interactive & user-friendly interface.
This Special Issue of JIME will feature nine papers by invited, internationally renowned authors who have previously written about the effect of technology on education, learning and scholarship. Their interests and writing span distance education, higher
This Special Issue of JIME will feature nine papers by invited, internationally renowned authors who have previously written about the effect of technology on education, learning and scholarship. Their interests and writing span distance education, higher